2025 Dao Prize Award Winners

Mollie Hemingway

Mollie Hemingway won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Elle Purnell

Elle Purnell won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Matt Kittle

Matt Kittle won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Margot Cleveland

Margot Cleveland won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Joy Pullman

Joy Pullman won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Brianna Lyman

Brianna Lyman won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Breccan Thies

Breccan Thies won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Sean Davis

Sean Davis won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

John Davidson

John Davidson won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Shawn Fleetwood

Shawn Fleetwood won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Jordan Boyd

Jordan Boyd won the 2025 Dao Grand Prize with The Federalist staff for their series on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Katelynn Richardson

Katelynn Richardson is a runner-up to the 2025 Dao Grand Prize for her reports on the Biden’s war on parents

Megan Brock

Megan Brock is a runner-up to the 2025 Dao Grand Prize for her reports on the Biden’s war on parents

Ashley Rindsberg

Ashley Rindsberg is a runner-up to the 2025 Dao Grand Prize for his series on the Ideological Capture of Wikipedia

Steven Robinson

Steven Robinson won the 2025 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for his series on the Chinese Mafia’s takeover of rural America

Graham Pollard

Graham Pollard won the 2025 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for his documentary on the Chinese Mafia’s takeover of rural America

2024 Dao Prize Award Winners

Susan Crabtree

Susan Crabtree won the 2024 Dao Grand Prize for her series on the secret service

Anna Giaritelli

Anna Giaritelli is a runner-up to the 2024 Dao Grand Prize for her reporting on the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border

Gabe Kaminsky

Gabe Kaminsky is a runner-up to the 2024 Dao Grand Prize for his reporting on partisan nonprofits

Ari Sen

Ari Sen won the 2024 Best Local Journalism Dao Prize for his computation journalism on why so many Americans bleed to death

Smiley Pool

Smiley Pool won the 2024 Best Local Journalism Dao Prize for his photography on why so many Americans bleed to death

Lauren Caruba

Lauren Caruba won the 2024 Best Local Journalism Dao Prize for her reporting on why so many Americans bleed to death

Maggie Prosser

Maggie Prosser won the 2024 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for her reporting on the fentanyl epidemic in north Texas

Claire Ballor

Claire Ballor won the 2024 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for her reporting on the fentanyl epidemic in north Texas

Sharon Grigsby

Sharon Grigsby won the 2024 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for her reporting on the fentanyl epidemic in north Texas

Tom Fox

Tom Fox won the 2024 Best Multimedia Reporting Dao Prize for his photo journalism on the fentanyl epidemic in north Texas

2023 Dao Prize Award Winners

Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi won the 2023 Dao Grand Prize for the Twitter Files

Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss

Bari and The Free Press won the 2023 Dao Grand Prize for the Twitter Files

Aaron Sibarium

Aaron Sibarium is a runner-up to the 2023 Dao Grand Prize for his series on American Medicine and the Elites Behind DEI

Joseph Simonson

Joseph Simonson

Joseph Simonson is a runner-up to the 2023 Dao Grand Prize for his reports on shady left-wing nonprofits

Andrew Kerr

Andrew Kerr is a runner-up to the 2023 Dao Grand Prize for his report on shady left-wing nonprofits